Summer break

Just realise the animation of the Aquashark did not work in the previous post. Thus, we post it here again and hope it works.





Looks like we might not be able to complete the Aquashar instruction on time before the planned summer holiday break. We will be away for 2 wks for holiday and probably continue our work after we are back. Hope to capture more automata ideas along the way.

Enjoy.

CeraCera - the Automata People
We simply love designing Automata and can never have enough of it!
We even dream Automata!

Dream Butterfly

In a hot summer afternoon last week, I dozed off while working on the instruction manual for the AquaShark ZZZ, zzz, ZZZ, zzz...... In a dreamy state, I saw a beautiful butterfly resting on a huge chrysanthemum. The butterfly was flapping her wings and I could feel the cool breeze in this hot afternoon. It was a blissful experience.

Butterfly is beautiful. Eureka!

We will love to have a butterfly Automata and this will be our next project. The challenge is on the mechanism because the wings are simply a thin sheet of paper and there is not room to house the mechanism. But we have figured out the concept and will probably put it into drawing shortly.
We love it and I think we will really enjoy designing this butterfly in the dream.

We call this model " DREAM BUTTERFLY ".

Do you love Butterfly?
Do you love Paper Automata?
Then you will love a Butterfly Automata.



CeraCera - the Automata People
We simply love designing Automata and can never have enough of it!
We even dream Automata!

AquaShark is coming!

Final adjustment done and we have just finished the animation of the aquashark model. Show here for yore review and hope you like it. Turn the handle , see the shark swimming in the ocean looking for its food. Shark !Shark!

New model - JAW!

We have finally completed the shark . Putting the final model together and it works just fine. Turn the handle , the shark start swimming swiftly looking for it's food deep in the ocean. We will need to put together the instruction , arranging all the pieces into a package.... Hi, stopping looking at the shark swimming, get back to work on the instruction manual.......

New Automata Design in the pipeline - SHARK!

We have started a new automata design on a swimming Shark. Just completed some initial draft and working on modifying and smoothening the mechanism. It has been a struggle between whether to have a more realistic shark look or a more cartoon/funny look. Any way, we prefer the more realistic look . By the way , we were just wondering whether JAWs is a copy-right name or we can also use it to name our automata?

Re-launch of Ancient Official model as 2-in-1 kit

We have fixed one bug in the lenth of the arm pusher and put this model back for release. At the same time, re-introducing it as a 2-in-1 model. Beside the standard full-color kit, it come with additional blank model kit that allow self-coloring with your own choice of color. It saves on color printing ink and allows creativity. You can also add wording etc on to the model. Hope this will make paper automata more fun and enjoyable!

2-in-1 Model

As we received feedback from some users about their wish to have the models with their own choice of color as well as to save on color printing ink, we would like to try the new 2-in-1 model which include additional un-colored model. We sincerely hope this effort will help to meet some of the requirement and bring more fun to paper automata making.

This is the picture of our hand-colored Ancient Official model that we planned to re-release after we have fixed one of the bug in the design. Color pencils were used. Hope you like it.

Preview on our new model II

We have put up the image and page on this model pianist. http://www.ceracera.com/pianist.html. Have not decided whether to release this model for download as it might not be suitable for beginner, we will see.

These are some of the images,